QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔implementation - ✔✔actions that the nurse is going to perform in order to try and
reach the goal
✔✔evaluate - ✔✔were the smart goals and outcomes achieved
✔✔5 tiers of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs - ✔✔physiological needs
safety needs
love and belonging
self-esteem
self actualization
✔✔health promotion - ✔✔the process of enabling people to increase control over and to
improve their health
✔✔What is health - ✔✔health varies among individuals, typically meaning not having
any illness
✔✔self-concept - ✔✔one's overall view of oneself
✔✔healthy self-concept - ✔✔mostly psotive perception of self evaluation
, ✔✔5 personal evaluations within self-concept - ✔✔physical appearance
sexual performance
intellectual abilities
success in the workplace
friendship and approval from others
✔✔primary prevention - ✔✔address the needs of healthy clients in order to promote
health and prevent disease
ex) immunizations, child car seat edu, nutrition and fitness, health education, wearing
sunscreen, STD education
✔✔secondary prevention - ✔✔focuses on identifying the illness, providing treatment,
and conducting activities that help prevent a deteriorating health status (early detection)
ex) communicable disease screening and case finding, screenings (pap smear,
mammogram etc.) TB screening
✔✔tertiary prevention - ✔✔aims to prevent long term consequences of chronic
illness/disability and to support the highest functioning level possible (treatment)
ex) begins after an illness/injury, prevention of pressure ulcers after spinal cord injury
✔✔healthy people 2020 - ✔✔list of national objectives to promote health and prevent
diseases among the national population (released q1- yrs. & involves collaborative
efforts from local government, voluntary organizations and professional organizations,
businesses and individuals
✔✔healthy people 2020 goals - ✔✔improve health priorities and awareness and
understanding of the progress involving health, disease and disability
apply measurable health goals at the local, state and national level
apply the best practices to strengthen policies and improve health practice
identify the need for research, evaluation and data collection of health disparities
✔✔at risk populations for healthy people 2020 - ✔✔poor
elderly
ethnic minorities
economic disadvantages
✔✔infection - ✔✔invasion and multiplication in the body of a pathogen
✔✔types of pathogens - ✔✔bacteria, viruses, fungi, prions, parasites
✔✔HAI's - ✔✔hospital acquired infections, 1 in 25 pts. 648,000 pts in acute care
develop HIA's, 75,000 with HIA's die (ex; central-line associated, C diff. pneumonia,
surgery site infections, MRSA, UTI)